News and resources
Explore our publications on a wide range of topics, to find the powerful facts, stories and approaches that underpin our work to make the extractive industry more open, accountable and participatory.
Active filters
Zimbabwe invests $ 3 million in mining exploration activities. Is this the right path towards development?
In an attempt to determine Zimbabwe’s mineral reserves, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has decided to transform the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), a government owned minerals marketing entity, into an exploration company. The newly created Mineral Exploration Promotion Corporation (MEPC), which will be funded by mining revenues, aims at developing the […]
Sustainable development through community engagement: the case for the SDGs
The mineral resources of many developing countries have been viewed as a potential capital that can finance initiatives for sustainable development. However, in the Philippines, mining has never been an agent of development. Instead the decades-long operations of large-scale mining companies in the country have not made any noticeable dent on the fiscal health of […]
Natural resources and civic space: A perspective from the UN Special Rapporteur
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) and its members have noticed a worrisome trend in shrinking civic space as the cases of Niger, Myanmar and Azerbaijan have illustrated. As a response PWYP has been working with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights for Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, Maina Kiai, on a recent […]
Exploring the reality of the oil and gas sector in Lebanon
On May 30, the Order of Engineers in Lebanon, Tripoli chapter, hosted its first oil and gas conference entitled “Oil and Gas in Lebanon: Between reality and Dream”. The conference comes at a time when Lebanon’s nascent extractive industry sector is in limbo waiting for two important decrees to be issued that will kick-start the […]
Jacques Saham
It was in September 2014, during the 10th anniversary of Chad’s Publish What You Pay coalition that my organisation, Action de Partenaires pour l’Appui au Développement – APAD decided to join this movement. Although APAD (in English: Partnership Action for the Support of Development), of which I am the coordinator, is a new member, we […]
Latin American contributions to the EITI: environment and social engagement
On May 19, 20 and 21, the XI Forum on the Extractive Industries of the Latin American Network on the Extractive Industries (RLIE) was held in Quito, comprising 12 Latin American organizations and, since more than a year ago, Publish What You Pay (PWYP). Moreover, since its creation in 2009, this network has maintained a […]
Azerbaijan – Authorities raid civil society offices in continued crackdown on NGOS
Today, in an attempt to further gag independent civil society in Azerbaijan, the office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Azerbaijan sent a unit of investigators to raid the offices of the Economic Research Center. Based in Baku, this well-reputed think-tank has also been hosting the NGO Coalition for Improving Transparency in Extractive […]
Mohamed Adbellahi
Ever since I was young, I have always been committed to great causes. When I was very young I advocated in what we then called in Africa the progressive or revolutionary movements. Since, I have nurtured my ambition of serving my country, my people and above all fight for democracy, civic rights and later for […]
Charles Mulila
I live in the Copperbelt and have seen the trend from the old days when we had the Zambia Consolidated copper mines, and used to have good CSR projects. But after the privatization of the mines, a lot is not being done. This has brought about much disappointment for communities, as people want to get […]
Azerbaijan’s crackdown on activists at odds with their OGP membership
In September 2014, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) adopted a new policy to deal with concerns raised about civic space in participating countries. Together with CIVICUS, the World Alliance for Citizen Participation, and Article 19 (a human rights organisation focused on freedom of expression and information) PWYP decided to put that policy to the test […]
Nigeria’s freedom of information bill – great on paper, less so in practice
On paper the Nigerian Freedom of Information Act 2011 appears simple and straight forward. However, when it comes to application and enforcement there are difficulties in getting the required information, I don’t know if it is the same with other countries that have the Freedom of Information bill. Ensuring transparency and accountability in a system […]
In Lebanon, academics head discussions for how to ensure extractives become a blessing
Amidst all the delays, postponements, optimism and pessimism that have been shrouding the extractive industry’s birth in Lebanon for the past two years, one university, the Rafic Hariri University decided to enter the foray from a comprehensive angle. On April 16th, RHU launched its first Mediterranean Gas and Oil international conference 2015 (MedGO). The conference […]